MicroTESK is a set of Java-based utilities that are run from the command line. It can be used on *_Windows_*, *_Linux_* and *_OS X_* machines that have *_JDK 1.7 or later_* installed. To build MicroTESK from source code or to build generated Java models, *_Apache Ant version 1.8_ or later* is required. To generate test data based on constraints, MicroTESK needs *_Microsoft Research Z3_* that can work under the corresponding operating system.

# Download from http://forge.ispras.ru/projects/microtesk/files and unpack the MicroTESK installation package (the @.tar.gz@ file, latest release) to your computer. The folder to which it was unpacked will be further referred to as the installation directory (@<installation dir>@).

<pre>export MICROTESK_HOME=<installation dir></pre> To start editing the file, type @vi ~/.bash_profile@ (or @vi ~/.profile@). Changes will be applied after restarting the command-line terminal or reboot. You can also execute the command in your command-line terminal to make temporary changes.

To generate test data based on constraints, MicroTESK requires external constraint solvers. The current version supports the "Z3":https://github.com/z3prover and "CVC4":http://cvc4.cs.nyu.edu constraint solvers. Constraint executables should be downloaded and placed to the @<installation dir>/tools@ directory.

* Windows users should download Z3 (32 or 64-bit version) from the following page: http://z3.codeplex.com/releases and unpack the archive to the @<installation dir>/tools/z3/windows@ directory. Note: the executable file path is @<windows>/z3/bin/z3.exe@.

* OS X users should download Z3 from http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101918 and unpack the archive to the @<installation dir>/z3/osx@ directory. Note: the executable file path is @<osx>/z3/bin/z3@.

* UNIX and Linux should download the latest version of CVC4 binary from http://cvc4.cs.nyu.edu/builds/x86_64-linux-opt/unstable/ and save it to the @<installation dir>/tools/cvc4/unix@ directory as @cvc4@.

To generate a Java model of a microprocessor from its nML specification, a user needs to run the compile.sh script (Unix, Linux, OS X) or the compile.bat script (Windows). For example, the following command generates a model for the miniMIPS specification:

_NOTE: Models for all demo specifications are already built and included in the MicroTESK distribution package. So a user can start working with MicroTESK from generating test programs for these models._

For example, the following command runs the @euclid.rb@ test template for the miniMIPS model generated by the command from the previous example and saves the generated test program to the @test.asm@ file: